Rohde & Schwarz claims to be the first oscilloscope manufacturer to offer an integrated arbitrary waveform and pattern generator in the “lab class”. With the generator, all R&S RTO2000 and R&S RTE oscilloscopes can deliver test signals on two analogue and eight digital channels, making it possible to test complex circuits in a minimum of space using a single instrument. Even fully automated compliance tests can be performed.

Infinera has announced a successful subsea field test with Canalink across its subsea cable. The test, conducted with the Infinera Infinite Capacity Engine (ICE4) and featuring Infinera’s fourth-generation photonic integrated circuit, demonstrated the capability to upgrade the cable capacity by a factor of 13.

The 70S requires only four operational steps per splice, reducing splicing time to just six seconds. The 70S is also said to be the only machine to withstand drop testing on all six sides from a height of 70cm

NEC Corporation has announced that it has demonstrated a transmission capacity of 50.9 Terabits per second on a single optical fibre, over a distance greater than 11,000km. According to the company, this is the first time 50Tb has been achieved over 10,000km using C+L band Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers (EDFAs). Such a capacity over that distance corresponds to a record-breaking capacity distance product of 570 Pb-km (Petabit per second-kilometer).

XKL LLC, a provider of fibre optic networking systems, has launched the DarkStar Mux/Demux – Amplifier (DMD-A) optical utility appliance. The DMD-A provides a variety of filter options, including 48- or 96-channel mux/demux and 4-or 6-band combiner filter, and allows for point-to-point or east/west configurations. It also supports up to four Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers (EDFAs), depending on other installed options. XKL’s DMD-A optical appliance includes dispersion compensation and an integrated optical switch for path protection.

Ensemble, a division of Adva Optical Networking, has announced that its SmartWAN platform has won Light Reading’s Leading Lights Award for Most Innovative NFV Product Strategy (Vendor).

Just presented in Austin, Texas, on the eve of the Big Communications Event, the award recognises the value of Ensemble’s open virtualised networking platform for deploying and managing virtual SD-WAN and other NFV services at scale.

Prysmian Group, a significant operator in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, has been awarded a supply agreement from US telecom company Verizon Communications to support the company’s network expansion around a next-generation fibre platform that will speed the deployment of 5G services, while improving 4G LTE and other broadband capacity.

The three-year contract is worth approximately $300 million and will include supply of more than 17 million fibre kilometers of ribbon and loose tube cables.

CENX, a developer of software solutions for the telecom industry, has been awarded the “Outstanding Digital Enablement Vendor” award in the latest edition of Light Reading’s Leading Lights Awards in recognition of its namesake product, which allows service providers end-to-end, real-time visibility into their network in a single pane.

Leading Lights is the annual awards program hosted by Light Reading, a publication covering the global communications networking and services industry.